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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:19:12 +0530
From:	punit vara <punitvara@...il.com>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@...glemail.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@...il.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Punit Vara <punitvara@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] Staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_equal() over memcmp()

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Punit Vara <punitvara@...il.com> wrote:
> This patch is to the rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c file that fixes up following
> warning reported by checkpatch.pl :
>
> -Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()
>
> bssid and pnetwork->network.MacAddress both are 6 byte
> array which aligned with u16
>
> Signed-off-by: Punit Vara <punitvara@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> index 143be0f..b19556a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> @@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ static int r871x_get_ap_info(struct net_device *dev,
>                         return -EINVAL;
>                 }
>                 netdev_info(dev, "r8712u: BSSID:%pM\n", bssid);
> -               if (!memcmp(bssid, pnetwork->network.MacAddress, ETH_ALEN)) {
> +               if (ether_addr_equal(bssid, pnetwork->network.MacAddress)) {
>                         /* BSSID match, then check if supporting wpa/wpa2 */
>                         pbuf = r8712_get_wpa_ie(&pnetwork->network.IEs[12],
>                                &wpa_ielen, pnetwork->network.IELength-12);
> --
> 2.5.3
>

I have updated the patch as per feedback from various developers. As I
am sending second time subject should be patch v2 right ?
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